JD Parkes founded Parry Labs in 2016 out of a desire to help the Department of Defense achieve its modernization goals and after serving as an adviser to the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering on airborne intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance efforts. The company has been growing steadily ever since, winning...
The newly combined entity of Eutelsat America Corp. and OneWeb Technologies named senior leaders to its leadership team to help advance growth initiatives as it works to expand its geostationary and low Earth orbit satellite communications systems for government and commercial clients. “With this team, we are well-positioned to deliver innovat...
The State Department has approved Taiwan’s proposed foreign military sale request for aircraft spare parts and related equipment worth $228 million. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency said Monday the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in the United States, on behalf of Taiwan’s armed forces, made the request to purch...
CACI International (NYSE: CACI) has agreed to buy Azure Summit Technology for approximately $1.275 billion in cash as part of efforts to expand its technology offerings for the Department of Defense and other national security agency customers. CACI said Monday it expects the all-cash transaction to conclude in the second quarter of fiscal year 2025...
The State Department has approved the government of Japan’s request to purchase KC-46A aerial refueling aircraft and related equipment for $4.1 billion. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency said Friday Boeing (NYSE: BA), RTX (NYSE: RTX), its Pratt & Whitney business and Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) will serve as the principal contractor...
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency has awarded 10 vendors spots on a potential five-year, $290 million contract to provide national security agency customers access to unclassified commercial GEOINT-derived computer vision capabilities, data and analytic services. NGA said Friday the Luno A commercial data indefinite-delivery/indefinite-qua...
Wendy Chenault, a two-decade Maxar Technologies (NYSE: MAXR) veteran, has joined Aperio Global as vice president of operations. She announced her move to the Reston, Virginia-based data analytics and security company in a LinkedIn post published Friday. Chenault most recently served as director of business operations at Maxar, responsible for buildi...
NASA has awarded an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract valued up to $121 million to Crown Consulting to support the aeronautics and exploration technology research and development efforts at the agency’s Ames Research Center in California. The NASA Academic Mission Services 2 IDIQ covers a large scope of new and emerging ca...
ITT (NYSE: ITT) has completed its acquisition of kSARIA, a Behrman Capital portfolio company that manufactures and supplies connectivity offerings for the aerospace and defense end markets. The Stamford, Connecticut-based company said Thursday its purchase of kSARIA will be funded with a ~$460 million term loan and cash on hand. kSARIA is added to t...
For 10 years, Potomac Officers Club has provided a unique offering to the government contracting community with its Intel Summit: rare and open access to top Intelligence Community officials. IC members are notoriously elusive, secretive and hard-to-reach, so POC has fostered a trusted and secure environment for them to communicate with the industr...
